Tag: Dance
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Dance By Numbers Set
Recent interest taken in middle eastern and folk dancing by people who have never performed on stage has led to the growth of a new industry; dance-by-numbers choreography. No longer need beginners spend hours in a studio practising poses, movements, or routines. In today’s busy world this sort of time is just not available. So…
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Raree Shows And Figured Dancers
David Hume, the Scottish philosopher, wrote about ancient Greek tyrannies expending large sums on ” raree shows and figured dancers “. Apart from mentioning that they gathered the money for this by murdering citizens and foreigners, I can see no sensible objection. If the people in the city were provided with food and drink by…
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Bosoms, Hurrah!
Boobs. Titties Puppies. Secondary sexual characteristics of mammals. Hugh Hefner’s Retirement Funds. Honkers. Hooters. Zoobs. Bristols. Embonpoints. Endowments. No matter how badly you mangle the language, the human breast has always attracted attention. And the interesting point is that it has nearly always been favourable; with the exception of the Amazons, no-one in classic literature…